The Big Read: The art of listening

HUMAN language is thought to have been around for at least 10,000 years and for much of that time we’ve not only been talking to each other, we’ve also been theorising about the way we do it. Two-and-a-half millennia before typewriters were invented, Gautama Buddha was warning of the pernicious power of ill-chosen words and Aristotle was compiling a guide to public speaking. By the middle of the 20th century, the burgeoning influence of television was being described by Marshall McLuhan in his famous mantra: “the medium is the message”. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16160152.The_Big_Read__The_art_of_listening/?ref=rss